The vga fonts somehow forgot my ansi line drawing characters, so mc's
borders are weird. So, after looking at the fonts included
in ...fonts/misc, I tried adding some font names to the
~/.Eterm/themes/Eterm/themes.cfg file. I modified the fonts and menus
area. It seems to have worked!

begin attributes                                                                
    title [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~                                                   
       
    name Eterm                                                                  
    iconname [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~                                                
       
    scrollbar_type motif                                                        
    scrollbar_width 10                                                          
    font default 5   ' interestingly, font 3 still is the default even though 5 
is selected.
    font proportional 0                                                         
    font 0 5x7                                                                  
    font 1 6x10                                                                 
    font 2 fixed                                                                
    font 3 8x13                                                                 
    font 4 9x15                                                                 
    font 5 10x20                                                                
    font 6 12x24                                                                
    font 7 vga                                                                  
    font effects bottom_right 0x00000000                                        
end attributes        

.....
begin menu                                                                      
    title "Font"                                                                
    begin menuitem   
.....
    begin menuitem                                                              
      text "Font 5"                                                             
      action string '^[]50;#5^G'                                                
    end                                                                         
    begin menuitem                                                              
      text "Font 6"                                                             
      action string '^[]50;#6^G'                                                
    end                                                                         
    begin menuitem                                                              
      text "Font 7"                                                             
      action string '^[]50;#7^G'                                                
    end            


Nonetheless, now I have lots of font sizes that help.

Thx
On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 23:34 +0200, Hisham Mardam Bey wrote:
> you really want to use a different font altogether. Eterm's fonts are
> PCF which are not scalable. You can use smoothansi.pcf (or smooth.pcf)
> or vga.pcf
> 
> Install them, then go: Eterm -F vga or Eterm -F smooth / smoothansi
> 
> Installing them can be done like this:
> 
> cat /home/hisham/Scripts/addfont.sh
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> sudo cp $1 /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/
> cd /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc
> sudo mkfontdir
> xset fp rehash
> #sudo /etc/init.d/xfs restart
> 
> I hope this helps. (=
> 
> Hisham / CodeWarrior
> 
> On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 11:29:00 -0500, Peter Hyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I recently changed the resolution of my display to 1600x1200.
> > 
> > Fonts in Eterm have become ridiculously small and unreadable.
> > 
> > What changes need I make to the themes.cfg file in order to change the
> > base font sizes?  Thx.
> > 
> > Snippet from ~/.Eterm/themes/Eterm/themes.cfg
> > 
> > begin attributes
> >     title [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~
> >     name Eterm
> >     iconname [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~
> >     scrollbar_type motif
> >     scrollbar_width 10
> >     font default 3
> >     font proportional 0
> >     font 0 5x7
> >     font 1 6x10
> >     font 2 fixed
> >     font 3 8x13
> >     font 4 9x15
> >     font effects bottom_right 0x00000000
> > end attributes
> > 
> > --
> > Peter
> > 
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